RE: [BNW] Re: Truth's reliability *possible spoilers*

["Steve Crow" <crow_steve@hotmail.com>]

>Rule of thumb... don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you
>see... I think this applies to truth particularly well. I think Truth's 
>best
>interest is to make DP come out looking much more powerful and Defiance 
>much
>weaker. That plays into DP's hands as well as her own. It works well for
>what she needs to do. Especially if DP wants everyone to think Defiance is

That doesn't account for why she is wanted by Delta Prime, though.  They're 
hunting her so strenuously because she consistently makes them look good 
_and_ the Defiance looks bad...?

*shrug* As I noted before, I have no problem with the idea of a biased 
narrator per se.  But when you can't rely on _anything_ the narrator says, 
from the point of view of a Guide or Player trying to get a feel for the 
"world" they are running or playing in, such a narrator (and the game 
material she narrates) becomes useless.

Also, when such a biased narrator is typically used in the Player Section, 
the specific instances where they are incorrect or misinformed or usually 
presented in the GM-only section (see various Hell on Earth books like 
Cyborgs for good examples here).  To date, we've been presented with only 
one example of how Truth is inaccurate:    underplaying the Defiance 
resistance.

>weak too. Do you catch my drift. They two sides have different reasons and
>want different results from the same misinformation. She definitely has the

Well, as noted in the source material, there are more than two "sides" - and 
Truth to some degree has her own side.  The question here is, given that she 
is wanted by Delta Prime, what benefit does she gain by exaggerating DP's 
successful efforts?  I was under the impression her own goal was to be a 
_believable_ source of info so that Delta Prime would...well, believe her 
when she says the Defiance is weak.  If she consistently demonstrates 
herself as a liar and a spreader of misinformation to DP (even if she is 
lying for their benefit in this particular instance), why should they 
believe anything else she says?  Her position seems to be based on being as 
verifiably accurate to DP as possible.

*shrug* Like I said, I can (kinda) buy the whole "Armogeddon suits protected 
the powered Deltas within in" thing (and assuming this is further clarified 
in the upcoming Primers book).  But this whole "consider the source" thing 
that Matt noted does not, in this case, make much sense.

>skills for all this. And as a great newspaper man once said... "You send me
>the pictures and I'll come up with the war"(paraphrased of course).


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Steve Crow

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